The 6-4-1 Change Orders window provides functionality for managing changes to a prime contract or subcontract. Change orders allow you to track changes independent of a project’s budget, providing a clear audit trail for pending, approved, and refused changes.
Depending on the type of change work you need to perform, you can enter change orders that alter the job’s budget, proposal, or subcontracts, or any combination of the three. On the Prime Change Details tab, you can enter changes to costs that affect the bid amount. In the Budget and Sub Change Details tab, you can enter cost changes that affect your budgeted costs such as subcontract changes, or work for which you do not want to charge the client.
Change orders are now more closely integrated with subcontracts. When you create a change order using the 6-4-1 Change Orders window for a subcontract, information is displayed on the 6-7-1 Subcontracts window in columns named Changes, New Contract, and Remaining. This tight integration provides more control over your contracts and your invoicing by providing accessible information.
The 6-4-1 Change Orders window has two tabs, Prime Change Details and Budget and Sub Change Details.
The Prime Change Details tab allows you to track changes to a project and segregate changes to the contract (proposal) from changes to your budget (costs).
Prime Changes are change orders that alter the job proposal. Prime Changes allow you to track changes independent of a project proposal, providing a clear audit trail for pending, approved, and refused changes.
From approved prime changes, you can create receivable invoices and purchase orders. When you select the Create A/R Invoice or Create Purchase Order command on the Options menu, Sage 100 Contractor opens the appropriate window and inserts the relevant information. To complete the invoice or purchase order, you enter the parts and any additional information.
Change orders have two components: Prime Change Orders and Budget and Sub Change Orders. Change Orders allow you to track changes to a project and segregate changes to the contract (proposal) from changes to your budget (costs). Depending on the type of change work you need to perform, you can enter change orders that alter the job budget, proposal, or subcontracts, or any combination of the three. Overall, change orders provide a convenient way to manage changes to a contract or subcontract.
Subcontracts work in conjunction with change orders and accounts payable, providing you with better control over change work and billing. You can review billings, approved and open change orders, or a summary of the subcontract information. You can also set up
Because the Sub Change Orders window provides for managing changes to a budget or subcontract, you may enter cost changes that affect your budgeted costs (such as subcontract changes) or cost changes that affect work for which you do not want to charge the client.
When changes are approved, Sage 100 Contractor reflects the changes to costs in the contract and job cost reports, but the original budget remains unchanged.From approved change orders, you can create receivable invoices and purchase orders. When you select the Create Invoice or Create Purchase Order command on the Options menu, Sage 100 Contractor opens the appropriate window and inserts the relevant information. To complete the invoice or purchase order, you enter the parts and any additional information.
You can also record which plans and documents you send as attachments with the change order, as well as to whom you route the change orders.
The 6-4-1 Change Orders window also supports Attachments and Routing. You can drag and drop files onto the window to create an attachment that can be emailed to customers or printed. The Routing command allows you to keep track of where and to whom you have sent attachments.
Tip: The Attachments command is located under Edit > Attachments.
Another important feature of the 6-4-1 Change Orders window is Upgrade check box. The Upgrade check box controls what information is included in important reports. Here are two examples:
For an Upgrade Price to appear on the Homebuilders reports and to be added to the Sales Price Totals on the reports, Upgrade must be selected, and that specific change order must have an approved Prime Change Order amount.
For the Upgrade Budget to appear on the Homebuilders reports and be added to the Total Budget, Upgrade must be selected, and that specific change order must have an approved Budget amount.